Senecio hypoleucus

Erect subshrub to c. 1 m high, young stems densely white-cobwebbed sometimes becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, not auriculate, ovate to lanceolate, 5–15 cm long, 1–8 cm wide, dentate to biserrate; upper surface finally glabrous (or retaining a few cobwebbed hairs around veins); lower surface densely white-cobwebbed; petiole to 4 cm long. Inflorescence corymbose, typically 2–6 cm across, with c. 20–300 capitula arranged in dense clusters; capitula non-radiate; involucre cylindric, 4.5–6 mm long, glabrous; bracts 7–10; bracteoles few, not crowded; florets 10–14, all bisexual. Cypselas cylindric or narrow-fusiform, 1.7–2.2 mm long, brown, broadly ribbed, papillose-hairy in intervening grooves; pappus of slender hairs c. 4 mm long, deciduous. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar